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AIMiles Brundage compares the phrase "Recursive self-improvement (and we'll figure out later what role humans play)" to Tesla's "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)". He says both are vague enough to satisfy critics while misleading about the actual goal.

AIA set theorist says OpenAI's preprint claiming the Partition Principle does not imply the Axiom of Choice is unclear, muddled, and oddly structured, with unexpected lemmas and weak references. He argues the work is hard to verify and that OpenAI's press release describes it as "progress" while media call it "solutions."

AIJoshua Achiam says OpenAI's comment on firing safety staff Jasmine, Tomek, and Mikita came late and lacked substance. He urges OpenAI to make its information-sharing policies explicit and to endorse mandated disclosure protections for staff who report through legal channels. He warns that ambiguity risks losing top safety talent.

AIWall Street is giving AI agents more of the work of interpreting market information, according to Fast Company. A bad source or missing context can spread into real-world decisions before anyone catches it.

AIInstinct, a startup AI agent that works through text messages, handled online tasks such as swim lesson searches, an eye doctor appointment email, and an Ikea return about as well as Muse and Dots, according to The Verge's testing. The startup was valued at $10 billion in late September, and it has no app or subscription fee for now, with access by invitation or waitlist. Its founder, Noah Shinn, says its focus on a personal assistant sets it apart from OpenAI and Meta.

AIGary Marcus says OpenAI's new math result is not the real news, because its report omits the procedure, the model architecture, and the failure rate. He argues that without these details, nobody can tell whether the system generalizes beyond math or only exploits Lean and synthetic data in a verifiable domain. The post includes a companion section by Terence Tao, whose take is not shown in the provided text.

AIGary Marcus says a White House accord on superintelligence lets major AI companies avoid regulation and public input while relying on their own "independent" evaluators. He says Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk backed away from the "pacing" they discussed two weeks earlier.